Chips and Chapters, a Book for Amateur and Young GeologistsW. Blackwood and sons, 1869 - 303 páginas |
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... sixteen centuries have elapsed since the deer were mired in the morass . Did Roman remains occur in the peat - bed , as they sometimes do , we would then have an approximation to the date of the deer , as 36 CHIPS AND CHAPTERS .
... sixteen centuries have elapsed since the deer were mired in the morass . Did Roman remains occur in the peat - bed , as they sometimes do , we would then have an approximation to the date of the deer , as 36 CHIPS AND CHAPTERS .
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... remains now excavated , and our know- ledge of Roman history and Roman art , have approximated the date of the catastrophe . But had these remains borne no resemblance to anything Italian , Roman , Greek , Etrus- can , Phoenician , or ...
... remains now excavated , and our know- ledge of Roman history and Roman art , have approximated the date of the catastrophe . But had these remains borne no resemblance to anything Italian , Roman , Greek , Etrus- can , Phoenician , or ...
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... remains of extinct animals , -- and what does it prove ? Simply this and nothing more , that it was a cave when the extinct animals lived in it , a cave when man took shelter in it , and a cavern still when the wild beasts of the ...
... remains of extinct animals , -- and what does it prove ? Simply this and nothing more , that it was a cave when the extinct animals lived in it , a cave when man took shelter in it , and a cavern still when the wild beasts of the ...
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... remains . The bones of the existing fauna are found in the mere superficial crust - the bones of the extinct animals and the flint implements deep in the cave - earth , and bespeaking an antiquity , not of centuries merely , but of ...
... remains . The bones of the existing fauna are found in the mere superficial crust - the bones of the extinct animals and the flint implements deep in the cave - earth , and bespeaking an antiquity , not of centuries merely , but of ...
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... remains of reindeer and musk - ox occur in the superficial accumulations of France and Belgium , and re- mains of mammoth and tichorrhine rhinoceros in those of France and Britain . The presence of the reindeer and musk - ox bespeaks an ...
... remains of reindeer and musk - ox occur in the superficial accumulations of France and Belgium , and re- mains of mammoth and tichorrhine rhinoceros in those of France and Britain . The presence of the reindeer and musk - ox bespeaks an ...
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Página 135 - THERE rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
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